Chapter 23: No Bed of Roses Part 2

Chapter 23: No Bed of Roses Part 2

We rode quietly for a few minutes, the pace slow but steady to allow for Boss’s injured legs. I could see the broken branches and turned over earth where we had barreled our way through the forest. It was a clear as day trail that any shady character growing drugs in a remote location could follow right back to the rest of the group. I was nervous about stumbling onto something we obviously weren’t supposed to find, but I knew that Cy would do whatever it took to keep me and the rest of the riders safe. He wasn’t a cowboy, but he was a good man, a man who took responsibility for those in his care seriously. He was a man who would stand between any kind of threat and those who needed his protection.

“How do you know your dues have been paid?” I asked the question so quietly that I wasn’t sure he heard me.